05-16-2008, 11:57 AM
Quote:In their eagerness to visit justice on a 49-year-old woman involved in the Megan Meier MySpace suicide tragedy, federal prosecutors in Los Angeles are resorting to a novel and dangerous interpretation of a decades-old computer crime law -- potentially making a felon out of anybody who violates the terms of service of any website, experts say.
"This is a novel and extreme reading of what [the law] prohibits," says Jennifer Granick, civil liberties director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "To say that you're violating a criminal law by registering to speak under a false name is highly problematic. It's probably an unconstitutional reading of the statute."
Lori Drew, of O'Fallon, Missouri, is charged with one count of conspiracy and three violations of the anti-hacking Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, in a case involving cyberbullying through a fake MySpace profile...
full article: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/05...dictm.html
related article:
Lori Drew Indicted in MySpace Suicide Case -- Updated
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/05...indic.html
copy of the indictment:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/files/m...ctment.pdf